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When the Holy Door of St. Peter's Basilica is opened for midnight Mass on Christmas Eve, 1999, it will usher in the Jubilee Year for Roman Catholics around the world. From that night until the feast of the Epiphany on Jan. 6, 2001, the Vatican has prepared a full calendar of solemn observances, including prayer vigils, ecumenical celebrations and several canonizations, over which the Pope will preside...
Whatever the price, for some people the journey will be worth the expense. "Rome is the birthplace of Western civilization and Christian culture," observes Joan Lewis of the Vatican Information Service. "As long as you're not looking for something outlandish like a yacht that's going to cross two time zones, this is the place...
...said that all politics is local. Proving that point, Somerville mayor Michael Capuano [4] won the Democratic primary for O'Neill's old House seat (once also held by J.F.K.), swaying voters with aggressive campaigning. That tactic was better than that of his closest competition, former Boston mayor and Vatican ambassador Ray Flynn, who showed pictures of himself with the Pope and Mother Teresa...
...Raymond L. Flynn, the former ambassador to the Vatican and mayor of Boston, is pro-life...
...Irish Catholic who rose to prominence in the early 1980s as a populist champion of the working class, Flynn, 59, is an F.D.R. Democrat who's tight with organized labor. He left city hall in 1993 to serve for four years as Bill Clinton's U.S. ambassador to the Vatican, but he still sounds more like a ward heeler than a diplomat. "I've always been a fighter for the poor people of this city, and I'll continue to do that," Flynn says one morning as he waves at rush-hour traffic. It's a well-earned boast...